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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013
VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 108
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Student fee board begins allocating $2 million in funds ALISON DORF Arizona Daily Wildcat
The Student Services Fee Experience failed after members Advisory Board began its agreed that the proposal was not allocation of $2 million worth of a proper use of student services funds to 15 of 29 student services fee money. This year, the board had a new fee project proposals on Monday development to allow each preevening. Among the top funded pro- senter five minutes to discuss grams recommended for 2014 and share their proposal with the board prior to the were the Veterans meeting, so board Education and At the end of members could betTransition Serthe day, it’s up ter understand the vices, the Dean proposal, according of Students Ofto the board to Allen. fice Graduate and essentially just The first item on Professional Studto see what they the agenda was the ies Program, the think about a Veterans EducaWomen’s Resource proposal, how tion and Transition Center and ScholServices proposal. arship Universe. they feel about The program pro“We’ve been it, and make a vides an important working really hard decision. service to the UA to do these proCampus, according posals and review — Joel Hauff,Student Services Fee Advisory to Olukemi Oso, the them,” said Arielle Board adviser secretary of the fee Allen, vice chair of advisory board. the board. “They’re “As the current all great.” However, the proposals for wars are ending we’ll be the allocation of funds for Daily expecting to have an even higher Wildcat Jobs: Creation, Reten- number of vets on our campus, tion, Transition and Ensur- so it’s important that we have a ing an Extraordinary Student vital space for them,” Oso said.
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STUDENTS FLAUNTED their favorite dance moves on Monday at a Pink Nation Dance Party in exchange for a surprise gift from Pink by Victoria’s Secret. The event was part of the Spring Break Campus Tour, which brings a goodie-filled Pink truck to five different college campuses across the nation. The dance party provided an opportunity for students to show off their favorite moves for a video to be featured online that will look similar to a flipbook, with many still shots compiled together, according to Kayla Gideon, a manager for Victoria’s Secret at the Tucson Mall.
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A recent grant to the University of Arizona Police Department could make impaired drivers think twice before getting behind the wheel. Last week, UAPD announced that the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded UAPD a $35,000 grant, enabling the department to deploy extra officers to combat impaired drivers around the community. “The grant’s going to allow us to put additional officers out to focus on DUI violations,” said Joe Bermudez, a UAPD crime prevention officer. “And the number of officers is going to be in addition to the normal number of officers.” Bermudez said the grant wasn’t a result of increased incidents around campus, but rather funding the department has received the last several years from the state. Events where extra officers will be stationed include home football games and other designated events in the community until Dec. 31, according to a UAPD media release. The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety department allots grants to agencies that apply for additional funding based on performance and need, according to Alberto Gutier, director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. While every agency spends the money differently, frequently it’s expended toward overtime,
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hen she was 22, Leah Iverson found herself living alone in a small, rural village on the coast of El Salvador. This village was what she called home for the next 27 months of her life; Iverson had joined the Peace Corps. Iverson said she had always known this was something that she wanted to do. “I knew that I did not want to go directly into the workforce full time,” Iverson said. “I wanted an opportunity to go abroad, to learn another language, to be able to travel a little bit more while getting paid but also doing something significant.” She applied for the Peace Corps in the fall of her senior year of college in 2005 and after graduating with a degree in anthropology and waiting almost a year to receive the paperwork and training, Iverson was finally given her assignment as a youth development volunteer. “I actually had to Google where El Salvador was because I wasn’t sure where it was,” Iverson said. “I knew it was in Latin America but that was about it.” Upon Iverson’s arrival to the small village of San Carlos Lempa, she quickly realized that she was the only Peace Corps volunteer for miles and her Spanish was not as solid as she had thought. “I went down there pretty confidently. ‘Oh yeah, I’ll be able to speak the language, I’ll be able to understand what people say to me.’ Oh, no. It was totally a shock,” Iverson said. “My accent was so horrible. It was so Americanized
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LEAH IVERSON, A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, teaches English to high schoolers in El Salvador. Iverson spent 27 months in a rural village on the Salvadoran coast.
that I was speaking Spanish, like correct conjugations and verbs, but nobody understood a word that I said.” After becoming more confident in her speaking abilities, Iverson started to focus on her goals for youth development. She began working in three different schools in the town and aided them in learning English and computer skills. In her free time, Iverson created a female soccer team for the young girls of the town as an opportunity for them to do something other than their routine of cooking and cleaning. “I thought it would be a good
way to reduce the cattiness of these females in town because at that age, girls are fighting about boys, especially because the selection is kind of limited,” Iverson said. With this goal in mind, Iverson went door-to-door asking girls’ parents if they could join the team. After receiving overwhelming support from the community, Iverson recruited a solid number of girls and immediately started practicing six days a week with games every Sunday. Success, however, did not come easy to the team. The players
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